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NewsExecutive Summary: What we learnt from the Tory party conference
HSJ’s roundup of the day’s top stories and talking points
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NewsFive things we learnt from the Tory party conference
The Conservatives’ autumn conference came to an end this afternoon, the first it has held as the single governing party since 1996. Here are five messages NHS leaders can take from the jamboree in Manchester.
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HSJ LocalOuter London trust to treat extra 98,000 patients
PERFORMANCE: Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust will have to treat an extra 98,000 elective patients over 18 months at an estimated cost of £20m.
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NewsFirst special measures GP practice to close
One of the first GP practices to be placed in special measures by the Care Quality Commission is to close, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ LocalEssex mental health trusts consider merger
STRUCTURE: Two mental health trusts are considering a merger against the backdrop of commissioners who plan to de-fund secondary community services for ‘most’ mental health conditions.
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NewsCarter review timeline slips
The progress of a high profile review into NHS efficiency has slipped against the timeline set by ministers.
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HSJ LocalSouth London trust requires improvement, says CQC
PERFORMANCE: Croydon Health Services Trust has been told it requires improvement by the Care Quality Commission.
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NewsExecutive Summary: Jeremy plays the hits, Simon hits out
HSJ’s roundup of the day’s essential stories and talking points
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NewsStevens: Government needs to 'rethink' immigration policy for NHS
NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens has warned the UK needs to ‘better join the dots’ between immigration policy and the NHS.
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HSJ LocalFormer HEFT chief to lead biggest ever GP partnership
STRUCTURE: GPs in Birmingham will launch what is thought to be the largest ever ‘super partnership’ in the NHS next month, merging at least 35 practices into a single organisation.
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HSJ LocalRuth Carnall to lead Devon success regime
APPOINTMENT: Dame Ruth Carnall has been appointed chair of the success regime in Northern, Eastern and Western Devon.
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NewsAnalysis: Acute trust stretch targets would cut deficit by only 16pc
The financial ‘stretch targets’ issued to acute NHS trusts would reduce their deficit by just 16 per cent, HSJ analysis has found.
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NewsExclusive: Hunt hires ex-royal college boss amid seven day row
Jeremy Hunt has hired Sir Norman Williams, the immediate past president of the Royal College of Surgeons, as his senior clinical advisor.
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NewsExclusive: ‘Flawed’ perceptions of GPs impact recruitment, warns HEE
Junior doctors and medical students are being put off training as GPs because of ‘fundamental flaws’ in how the profession is perceived, the chief executive of Health Education England has told HSJ.
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HSJ LocalTrusts continue acute care collaboration despite failed vanguard bid
Four acute trusts in Lancashire will continue discussions about sharing services, despite failing to secure ‘vanguard’ status.
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NewsExecutive Summary: Hurtling towards the £2bn deficit
HSJ’s roundup of the day’s biggest stories and liveliest debate
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NewsExclusive: Trusts continue to forecast £2bn deficit as overspending worsens
The latest available figures show the NHS acute sector continuing to forecast a deficit in excess of £2bn for this financial year. Trusts’ year to date financial performance is even worse than planned, HSJ analysis has found.
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NewsExclusive: ‘Trusts with no future’ list on hold again
Plans to publish a list of NHS trusts unlikely to have a future as independent organisations have been put on hold, the NHS Trust Development Authority has indicated.
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NewsLondon CCG could defy NHS England on QIPP demands
A London clinical commissioning group is considering whether it should refuse to make more primary care quality, innovation, productivity and prevention savings demanded by NHS England by the end of the year.
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NewsPrime minister announces new contract for large GP providers
The government will introduce a new contract for large scale extended primary care providers, the prime minister announced today.